Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

Chapter 138

Chapter 138
Is that what he wants?
I smile. “I’ve loved you for a long time,” I tell him.
A month ago, I never would’ve admitted such a thing. But now, his pride. Mine. What does it matter?
Life is about love.
And love is everything.
He grins. “That’s good.”
He doesn’t give me back the words. I’m not sure he can. Aaron has been broken down
in ways that make my traumas seem tame.
That’s another part of life, I’m learning. Accepting people as they are.
And I accept him.
If this is all he can be. It’ll be enough for me.
I drag myself away on shaky legs.
I’m sore in certain places, but even that is kind of a turn-on, because it’s the things we did that make me overly sensitive. And it’s these residual feelings that will remind me
of him in the long hours to come until I see him again.
“I’ll pick you up for dinner tonight.”
My heart quickens at the thought of another night in his arms. Another ‘date.’ I nod.
“Okay.”
“Eight o’clock. Don’t be late.”
I slide back into my dress and grab my purse. I don’t bother with shoes.
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I’ll do my walk of sha me and take the elevator down a few floors.

In the whole scheme of things, what does it matter?
Funny, how dying is giving me all new perspectives on how to live. I hang onto those
and use them to keep the sadness at bay.
Crying won’t change things.
Although deep down, I wish there was another way…
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The hours crawl by.
manage a quick shower and change clothes. When I leave my hotel room, James is
waiting outside for me.
He offers a smile and then walks by my side to the elevator, out of the hotel. He pauses only to settle me in the backseat of the SUV.
When we reach Pack Roberts building, he walks me all the way up to the conference
room.
He took the whole door-to-door service very seriously.
“I have meetings with some of my packmates.”
“We’re your packmates,” he reminds me. “But okay. You can head up. I’ll hang out down here in the lobby.”
I get the impression that he’ll be my shadow for the foreseeable future.
“How did you get stuck with babysitting duty?” I ask.
He looks offended. “I volunteered, Leah. It’s an honor.”
Da mn it, it that didn’t make me almost weep.
“Hey, do me a favor, keep this on you at all times that I’m not around or when you’re not with Aaron.”
I take the package he extends to me. It’s not big. It looks like a giant pen. Only about an inch around. “What is this?”
“Kind of like an Epipen.”
I frown. “But I don’t have any allergies.”
“It’s not for you. And it doesn’t contain epinephrine.”
I hole
up the tube-shaped object. It’s red at one end.
“It’s wolfsbane, Leah. Not enough to k ill, but definitely enough to incapacitate. Someone comes at you, you slam that red side down-anywhere you can hit them.”
It’s injectable poison. I nod and slide it into my back pocket. “Okay.”
FO
I just pray I’ll never need it.
In the restricted computer lab, Liam is at a bank of monitors talking quietly with Dennis. “This round of beta testing shows promise,” he says to me. “We’ve run several thousand simulations and the model of learning with the statistical results of the tests is overwhelmingly positive.”
Dennis explains to me, “A statistical error of up to 5% is considered acceptable.”
If lives are at stake, I’m not sure any mistake is ‘acceptable.
“Human error is as high as 15%.”
Oh. I guess that is better then, comparatively.
“So what happens now?” I ask them.
“We run several more tests and begin scaling up the software. We will need to employ a separate organization to test the efficacy of our firewalls.”
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